Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America appear on lists of Planet Earth’s seven continents. Mountains are present on all continents. They configure difficult and easy, gentle and steep, high and low peaks and slopes. Mountain-climbers deem it an impressive accomplishment to scale each continent’s loftiest heights. That list gathers together:

Mount Aconcagua in the South American country of Argentina;

Mounts Cartensz Pyramid in the Australian / Oceanian country of Indonesia and Kosciuszko in Australia;

Jordan’s seven-continent mountain-climbing achievements cover five years, from July 22, 2006 through December 24, 2011. They date from his first such effort at age 10 and end with his last such endeavor at age 15. They do not begin with the lowest and most accessible elevations and work toward the highest and most remote heights. For example, the lowest of the seven sisters is on the Australian / Oceanian continent. Depending upon the classification scheme, options may involve one of two summits:

7,310-foot (2,228.09-meter) Mount Kosciuszko in east Australia’s state of New South Wales;

16,024-foot (4,884.12-meter) Mount Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia’s Papua Province on the island of New Guinea.

Mount Kilimanjaro dominates the short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro published by Oak Park-born United Statesian author and journalist Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961). Southeast Africa’s and Tanzania’s most famous summit also emerges as ten-year-old Jordan’s debut seven-sister mountain-climbing experience. It furnishes mountain-climbers in general and Jordan in particular with the thrill of summiting at 19,341 feet (5,895.14 meters) above sea level. It has the honor of being the only one of the seven-sister mountains to be scaled by Jordan in 2006. Its solitary placement on the list of Jordan’s mountain-tackling visits is:

Offset by the pre-teenager’s three-in-one accomplishments in the following year, 2007;

Conclusion

They have as one of their most uplifting impacts the power to encourage similar achievements. They indicate that it still is possible to have and realize dreams. Such is the case with:

Jordan Romero;

His father Paul Romero;

His stepmother Karen Lundgren.

Jordan may be super-famous for scaling the world’s highest mountains as:

Precocious pre-teen;

Prescient teen.

But Karen and Paul also model record-breaking achievements as the adventure racing world’s Team Sole. All three additionally represent the first family to summit the world’s highest mountains together, as documented by Jordan’s and Linda’s “must-buy, must-read” book.

Jordan Romero

Uploaded to YouTube on October 11, 2010 by sportstalk4kids ~ URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5CdSU7sGpQ

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to:

Talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the Internet;

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for superior on-campus and on-line resources.

Jordan Romero Climb Mt Aconcaqua

Uploaded to YouTube on January 2, 2010 by rootscalifa ~ URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1f8HS8NKU

Available at: http://kidsnewsinc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=96:jordan-romero-reaching-the-top-the-youngest-kid-to-climb-mount-everest

Daily Mail Reporter. 26 December 2011. “On Top of the World: Teenager, 15, Becomes Youngest Ever to Climb the Tallest Peaks on Each Continent … and His Last One Was in Antarctica.” Daily Mail Online: News. Associated Newspapers Ltd. Retrieved November 12, 2014.

Available at: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078414/Jordan-Romero-15-youngest-climb-tallest-peaks-continent.html?ITO=1490

The Boy Who Conquered Everest: The Jordan Romero Story by Katherine Blanc with Jordan Romero

Jordan Romero was a regular 9 year old boy. He loved BMX biking, listening to music, hanging out with his friends and family, and studying nature and reptiles. Then one day Jordan spotted a map of the tallest mountains on Earth's seven continents.